Poker has always been a TV staple, in fiction. It's got a more blue collar vibe, isn't the go-to for casino scenes like blackjack or roulette or craps (talk about something that doesn't make sense), and can easily be played at the kitchen table.

Love me some blackjack even if I am terrible at it. Although I wish you could gamble on backgammon in more places because I'm awesome at backgammon.

Was a bit of a plot hole when Casino Royale changed it to Texas Hold-Em poker or whatever, because that's more luck-based than the card-counting skill that Bond's strategy in the original book relied on, iirc.

Of course, Brock enjoys poker more, as you can experience for yourself.

You can math your way to a big edge in poker as well. The bad guy gives a hint of this early in the movie where he tells someone their odds of hitting the outside straight they're chasing.

The bigger issue is how insane that hand is. There's four players in it (why not just a one-on-one between Bond and the guy he's trying to bankrupt?) and their hands are flush, full house, higher full house, and straight flush. It's bananas.

Those hands also tend to be where the big money gets kicked in. If it's high card high card one pair two pair, it's a lot easier for any of those guys to fold. With a high full house, it's a lot harder to fold to a possible straight flush.

Man-oh-man, Cowboy looks like a bag of leftovers from a V.F.W. barbecue. Of
course, I've got nothing against dead people. Why, some of my best friends are dead

Oh Jesus nearly every episode in season 3 they mention 24's upcoming death. This season's commentary is the best so far and I hope it gets better with each season. gently caress, I can't believe I've seen the show so many times without delving into the commentary.

You don't want my life. What do I have to show for it? Chozo DNA in my body, Metroid Prime blood on my hands, and a foot locker full of Ridleys.

My favorite one was Dermot's mom, apparently on fan forums people were trying to match the siloute to figure out who it is and they admited they just used a generic character model because at the time they didn't really had an idea who Dermot's mom was gonna be.

Also because of the commentaries, I now am very aware of the background characters and how often they use/recycle them in crowded scenes.

The best thing about the commentaries is how they will go off on a joking tangent about something like "Oh yeah, next season we're going to introduce a flamboyant gay character whose catchphrase is 'Boom! Yummy.'", and then five years later when the new season begins you realize that they actually followed through on it.

The latest season is sort of disappointing, since it doesn't get any of that sort of fractal complexity of characters getting introduced and then bumping around against everything, since almost all the new characters die the episode they're introduced, in addition to most of the newer characters from the previous season not being around.

When she sees brock in the road she pulls a uturn and burns out. Look at the tires they look awful and I never would have noticed if Jackson didnít point it out and groan.

He (or Hammer?) pointed out a similar issue at the end of The Invisible Hand of Fate, when Brock pulls Adrian off the road to park by Pete White's trailer. It's just... ugly animation, sorry to say. Awkward.

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

The one thing they kept consistent through the commentary is how they just don't like Baron Underbite at all because they can't really think of anything to do with him.

Only took the last season to finally kill him off.

Pretty sure he isn't dead, far as I can tell Zero was the only for sure casualty of the Revenge Society from their Gargantua 2 mission(and honestly knowing this show I don't consider any death as being 100% written in stone)

Pretty sure he isn't dead, far as I can tell Zero was the only for sure casualty of the Revenge Society from their Gargantua 2 mission(and honestly knowing this show I don't consider any death as being 100% written in stone)

They can just bring them back if they want. Catclops/Girl Hitler and all of them died when Underbite blew them up the first time and Colonel Gentleman was actually dead but he was such a big bastard they wanted to write for him again.

Pretty sure he isn't dead, far as I can tell Zero was the only for sure casualty of the Revenge Society from their Gargantua 2 mission(and honestly knowing this show I don't consider any death as being 100% written in stone)

Watch it with that.

Over on the old Adult Swim boards, before they changed it from a relatively standard forum organized by topic (like, say, Something Awful) to a low-rent Reddit clone whose disorganization precluded actually discussing any of the shows, one thing that kept coming up was this whole contingent of Venturoos who swore up and down that Jonas Venture was alive.

Their favorite refrain: "blah blah blah Action Man said Dr. Entmann was the first to go blah blah blah that can't possibly mean what it means in all other similar fictional scenarios where they're not talking about people killed in battle but instead people who die off after retirement blah blah blah Jonas is alive because every line of dialog by every character is to be taken totally literally and is thus canon!"

So, don't start with this stuff about not believing in deaths on the show. Only a world-class idiot would say something that gave that "debate" a chance to start anew.

Jonas Venture actually died in college. Someone who knew him well was able to use his superscience stuff and some of the Venture family superscience stuff to transform himself to look like Jonas. Jonas "died" to the outside world only many decades later when the transformation process finally started to break down, and that character ended up finding a way to fake "Jonas" dying. That character is still alive to this day (in his own body, but he's looking younger than he should because his body didn't age while superscience transformed) and his name is....

I want to see the Colonel Gentleman spinoff they wrote as a writing exercise that was apparently as outrageous and lewd as they could possibly make it.

They can just bring them back if they want. Catclops/Girl Hitler and all of them died when Underbite blew them up the first time and Colonel Gentleman was actually dead but he was such a big bastard they wanted to write for him again.

Over on the old Adult Swim boards, before they changed it from a relatively standard forum organized by topic (like, say, Something Awful) to a low-rent Reddit clone whose disorganization precluded actually discussing any of the shows, one thing that kept coming up was this whole contingent of Venturoos who swore up and down that Jonas Venture was alive.

Their favorite refrain: "blah blah blah Action Man said Dr. Entmann was the first to go blah blah blah that can't possibly mean what it means in all other similar fictional scenarios where they're not talking about people killed in battle but instead people who die off after retirement blah blah blah Jonas is alive because every line of dialog by every character is to be taken totally literally and is thus canon!"

So, don't start with this stuff about not believing in deaths on the show. Only a world-class idiot would say something that gave that "debate" a chance to start anew.